foundationers

(Foundationers) other non-foundationers (Commoners) were to be admitted to instruction.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

If I mistake not, the foundationers of Magdalen -- including, perhaps, some who were undergraduates with you -- are assembled in the college hall at this moment to celebrate Christmas, and hear the choir sing

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

This idea of a transference, I may be allowed to add, continued to be mooted, and in 1776 it was actually proposed by the heads of Balliol to the Senatus of Glasgow to transfer the Snell foundationers altogether to Hertford College; but the Glasgow authorities thought this would be merely a transference of the troubles, and not a remedy for them, that the exhibitioners would get no better welcome at Hertford than at Balliol if they came as “fixed property” instead of coming as volunteers, and that they could never lose their national peculiarities of dialect and their habits of combination if they came in a body.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895